Document: Brief contends DOMA should not go before high court now

Mercury News

Posted:
01/25/2013 11:27:23 AM PST

Updated:
01/25/2013 11:31:02 AM PST

The U.S. Supreme Court is not in a legal position to rule now on the constitutionality of a 1996 federal law that bars benefits to same-sex couples, a Harvard University law professor told the justices in a brief they asked for.